You likely have one or more folders where you store files of certain types, and you often need to find or store files in these folders. You can use the My Places bar to quickly go to a folder to save or find a file that you need. The My Places bar is most useful if you customize it. In this article, you will learn how to customize the My Places bar.

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What is the My Places bar?

The My Places bar is an area at the left side in some dialog boxes, such as Save As, Open, and Insert Picture. You can use the My Places bar to specify a folder where you want to store your files for easier access. Making changes to the My Places bar in any one dialog box causes the same changes to appear in other dialog boxes that have the My Places bar.

By default, the My Places bar contains shortcuts to the My Recent Documents, Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, and My Network Places folders. You can add up to 256 folders to the My Places bar. You cannot add files to the My Places bar.

1. To choose a folder, use the Save in list.

2. To view the contents of a folder on the My Places bar, click the folder's shortcut on the My Places bar.

3. To see more shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar, click the arrow.

Remove a shortcut from the My Places bar

Which 2007 Microsoft Office system program are you using?

Excel

Click the Microsoft Office Button
, and then click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

InfoPath

On the File menu, click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

OneNote

On the File menu, click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

Outlook

On the File menu, click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

PowerPoint

Click the Microsoft Office Button
, and then click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that
you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

Project

On the File menu, click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

Publisher

On the File menu, click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

SharePoint Designer

On the File menu, click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

Visio

On the File menu, click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.

Word

Click the Microsoft Office Button
, and then click Save As.

On the My Places bar, right-click the shortcut that you want to
remove, and then click Remove on the shortcut menu.

Note: You can remove only the shortcuts that you added to the My Places bar. You cannot remove the default shortcuts, such as My Documents, unless you edit your Microsoft Windows Registry. Find links to more information about how to remove the default shortcuts in the See also section.